Open Mind wrote:
Jaden wrote:
Two things.
1. A chick who's into nu-metal is more likely to be hot than a chick into... power or black metal or something. The fact that she's willing to be educated is awesome.
2. Don't fucking diss Killswitch Engage, man. They're NOT Nu-metal. Not at all! They're metalcore/thrash, and they kick some serious ass.
1. My main chick (say: wife) is into psy-trance / prog-techno and she's quite hot though.
2. My ass must be armored. I make a bet. In let's say 2 years or so "Metalcore" will be seen as what it is: the second wave of Nu-Metal. This doesn't mean that the quality of the music is necessarily bad (same for Nu-Metal) but it's all there: commercial expectations, a largely non-metal audience, and, oversimplification as to the music. Of course there will be some masterworks in the beginning but the bunch of 3rd-class followers plus their mallcore listeners will make the metal-scene to turn away.
Oversimplified music? Killswitch Engage are good musicians, and their music is not simple. They also don't have much of a large non-metal audience, moreso than a band like "Blind Guardian", but they still don't have a very large non-metalhead audience. Also, KsE wasn't that popular to start out. They were still a pretty small band with "Alive or just Breathing". They got popular for what they were already doing, not because they pulled an "In Flames". Don't attack good music just because it gets popular.
